This is just a thought and I know that Kinzyl does this. When I let her wear her shirt, sweatshirt, or sweater for a while she starts to rub up against the furniture. I now change her clothes more often and take them off for a while everyday. I know that some dogs have the shirts and clothes on to keep them from scratching but that is just my experience with Kinzyl.

The itching could be brought on by cutting down the pred. Maybe talk to your vet about giving it everyday again, but maybe doing a lesser dose every day. She just might not be ready to wean off of it. Did her old owners seem to notice her having an itchier time certain times of year?

The shirts could be causing some irritation, but if you noticed it right when you switched doses, it could be the pred dose.

Hoyden wrote:Oh and coming off prednisone makes you itch like you can't imagine. When I've been weaned off of it, I have to sleep with cotton gloves on and be doped up with atarax or I will peel my skin off.

I seriously want to go rub against trees or stucco houses or those big huge cow itchers that I see in the fields because my skin itches so much from the weaning.

It must vary from person to person it never made me itchy when I was coming off of it. But man it sure made me feel horrible while I had to take it! I really had a lot of issues with sore joints and it made me super puffy and hungry all the time.

Hoyden wrote:Oh and coming off prednisone makes you itch like you can't imagine. When I've been weaned off of it, I have to sleep with cotton gloves on and be doped up with atarax or I will peel my skin off.

I seriously want to go rub against trees or stucco houses or those big huge cow itchers that I see in the fields because my skin itches so much from the weaning.

It must vary from person to person it never made me itchy when I was coming off of it. But man it sure made me feel horrible while I had to take it! I really had a lot of issues with sore joints and it made me super puffy and hungry all the time.

It did all that too.

The two weeks I was weaned off, I think I lived in my "early warning" t-shirts. Wicked Witch; Bitch Goddess; Run if you know what's good for you and She who must be obeyed t-shirts.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men ~ General George S. Patton, Jr.

She taking all the stars down from her sky to hang them up someplace new, where there's better weather and the sky's a different blue. ~ Autumn Fields

Just to add: just remember...you don't really *know* what her allergy is yet. Grain-free is a good way to go, but it's not the be-all-to-end-all. She might have a protein allergy, or something else. Figgy ended up on grain free after numerous tries on good foods that contained some grain...and we've experimented since then with what he can have...and he always itches from grain ingredients.

"I don't have any idea if my dogs respect me or not, but they're greedy and I have their stuff." -- Patty Ruzzo

"Dogs don't want to control people. They want to control their own lives." --John Bradshaw

TheRedQueen wrote:Just to add: just remember...you don't really *know* what her allergy is yet. Grain-free is a good way to go, but it's not the be-all-to-end-all. She might have a protein allergy, or something else. Figgy ended up on grain free after numerous tries on good foods that contained some grain...and we've experimented since then with what he can have...and he always itches from grain ingredients.

yeah,,,,,thanks for the reminder, Erin.

I had hoped the Fish/Potato would eliminate MOST of the food allergens..... I've kept her to only potato/fish treats too.

but your're right.it COULD be environmental. DUST. OY...what will do with THAT?

“Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are Anger and Courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be.”----Augustine

TheRedQueen wrote:Just to add: just remember...you don't really *know* what her allergy is yet. Grain-free is a good way to go, but it's not the be-all-to-end-all. She might have a protein allergy, or something else. Figgy ended up on grain free after numerous tries on good foods that contained some grain...and we've experimented since then with what he can have...and he always itches from grain ingredients.

yeah,,,,,thanks for the reminder, Erin.

I had hoped the Fish/Potato would eliminate MOST of the food allergens..... I've kept her to only potato/fish treats too.

but your're right.it COULD be environmental. DUST. OY...what will do with THAT?

“Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are Anger and Courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be.”----Augustine

You forgot to add - BE PATIENT!!! You simply cannot undo in 2-3 weeks what this girl has lived with in the past year. You need to give everything some time to work... her meds, her new food, her treats, her new environment.Her whole body was under enormous stress, and any changes for the better will still take time.

But, on the off-chance that I'm wrong, let me dig out my magic wand and make it happen NOW!

You forgot to add - BE PATIENT!!! You simply cannot undo in 2-3 weeks what this girl has lived with in the past year. You need to give everything some time to work... her meds, her new food, her treats, her new environment.Her whole body was under enormous stress, and any changes for the better will still take time.

But, on the off-chance that I'm wrong, let me dig out my magic wand and make it happen NOW!

Worry Wart!

I KNOW I KNOW.

Well, I guess I 'KNOW" this to be true....and I'd give out the same information if I read this from another worried poster.But for some reason I EXPECT more....Intensive, Active Intervention.

My time table just isn't realistic.

“Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are Anger and Courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be.”----Augustine